Fire Island Ziti

This was a tasty, and very quick meal to toss together on a weeknight. The red pepper provided just enough heat that it didn’t bother me, but added a ton of flavor (and allowed DH to add more to suit his spicier tastes).

It’s spicy enough that small kids probably won’t eat it, but if you had adventurous eaters you can go ahead and try – I don’t recommend making it without the red pepper at all, because it’ll be a bit bland that way.

The bonus is we basically have all these items in our pantry/freezer/fridge at any given time, so it’s a great meal for “uh oh – what do we eat tonight?”

To make this even quicker, I sliced up the sausage and cooked it over the weekend; then I just tossed it in the freezer until the night we needed it. It heated up within 5 minutes in the pan.